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Subject_1 MEMBER of PARLIAMENT. Subject_2 DIVISION V.
Procedure in the Court of Freeholders.
Subject_3 SECT. III.
Powers of the Court of Freeholders.
M'Leod v. Gordon
Date: 17 January 1766 Case No. No 223.
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M'Leod of Cadboll stood enrolled as a freeholder of Cromarty upon his whole estate valued at L. 1361:10s. Haying got a division of his valuation, he granted a feu-right of the whole; obtained a charter of resignation from the Crown; granted wadsets of some parts of his superiority, and conveyances of other parts of it to his friends in liferent and himself in fee; the lands, of which he thus retained the fee, extending to L. 502:6:4d. of valued rent. This does not appear to have been proved to the freeholders, who, on objections having been duly lodged, struck him off the roll at their Michaelmas meeting. The Court of Session, upon a complaint, ordained him to be replaced as fiar of the lands contained in his titles.—See Appendix.
